Necktie holder



A. AUDET NECKTIE HOLDER Dec. 3, 1929.

Filed March 12; 1929 Patented Dec. 3, 1929 ALFRED AUDET, OF SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS NECKTIE HOLDER Application-filed March 12, 1929. Serial No. 346,389.

4 ing provided with a loop to engage the collar button and which serves as a housing for a sliding frame and also for a coil spring which normally holds said frame within said casing but permits it to be drawn down. Hinged to the lower end of said sliding frame is a neck-tie-engaging member having prongs or spurs to be stuck into the neck-tie when said sliding frame is drawn down, in opposition to the tension of said coil spring, the said spring pulling upward on the tie-engaging member having its prongs or spurs entered into the tie, so that said member will hold the tie up in its proper position. The tieengaging member is preferably provided with a slidingly-mounted pin which can be stuck into the tie and thus securely retain the holder in place.

In the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 is a side View of the improved holder showing the same in operative position relative to a neck-tie and collar. Fig. 2 is a partly brokenout front view, Fig. 3 a side view, and Fig. 4 a central vertical or longitudinal section of the holder. Fig. 5 is a transverse section on line 55 Fig. 2, and Fig. 6 a detail section on line 6-6, Fig. 2. In all of the views excepting Fig. 1 the holder is shown greatly enlarged, for clearness of illustration.

Referring to the drawing, 12 denotes a thin sheet metal casing of copper or other suitable material, said casing having an integral loop 13 to engage a collar button, said casing being so constructed as to afford side guide-ways to accommodate a sliding wire frame 14 having in-turned upper ends 141" for engagement with the inwardly projecting lugs 12 at the bottom of the casing and which lugs serve as stops to prevent said frame from being drawn out of the casing.

WVithin the casing 12 is housed a coil spring 15 attached at its upper end to an inwardly projecting lug 12 on the casing 12, said spring being attached at its lower end to a cross-barportion 1 1 of said sliding frame. From the foregoing it will be understood that the spring 15 serves to hold said sliding frame in its normal position in the casing 12 but permits said frame to be drawn out downwardly when desired.

Hinged to the crossbar portion 14 of the sliding, frame is a tie-engaging member 16 provided with upwardly projecting spurs or prongs 17 said member having a slot16. The member 16 is preferably constructed with a lug or flange 16 at its lower end, said lug or flange serving as a guide for a retaining pin 18 having a head 19 slidingly mounted on the member 16. The bodyof the pin 18 is preferably roughened to increase its holding engagement with a tie. v In the use of they improved holder the loop .13 is engaged with a collarbutton 20 after the tie 21 has been adjusted to a desired position, and the tie-engaging member is then drawn downward in opposition to the spring 15 and the prongs 17 are then forced into the tie 21 so that the saidv engaging member 16, being pulled upward by the spring 15, will, with its prongs, securely hold the tie up in proper position. The pin 18 will then be forced intothe tie, as shown in Fig. 1, thereby safely retaining the holder in place relative to the collar 22 and preventing accidental displacement of said holder.

The invention is not to be understood as being limited to all of the details of construction herein shown and described, as the details thereof may be varied widely, within the limits of mechanical skill, without departing from the scope of the invention asdefined by the claims hereunto appended.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A necktie holder comprising a casing having a loop for engagement with a collar button, a frame slidingly mounted in said casing, a spring normally retaining said frame in said casing but permitting it to be drawn outward, downwardly, and a sliding tie-engaging member connected with said frame and provided with prongs to enter a tie; whereby when said prongs are engaged with the tie the latter will be held up in its proper position.

2. A neck-tie holder comprising a casing having a loop for engagement with a collar button, a frame slidingly mounted in said casing, a spring normally retaining said frame in said casing but permitting it to bedrawn outward, and a tie-engaging member hinged to the lower part of said frame and provided with prongs to enter a tie; whereby when said prongs are engaged with the tie the latter will be held up in its proper position.

3. A neck-tie holder comprising a casing having a loop for engagement with a collar button, a frame slidingly mounted in said casing, aspring normally retaining said frame in said casing but permitting it to be drawn out, and a tie-engaging member connected with said frame and provided with prongs to enter a tie; whereby when said prongs are engaged with the tie the latter will be held up in its proper position, said sliding frame consisting of a single piece of wire having inturned upper ends, and said casing having inwardly projecting lugs serving as stops for said inturned ends.

4. A neck-tie holder comprising a casing having a loop for engagement with a col lar button, a frame slidingly mounted in said casing, a spring normally retaining said frame in said casing but permitting it to be drawn outward, a tie-engaging member connected with said frame and providediwith I prongs toent'er a tie; whereby when said prongs are engagedwith the tie the latter will be held up in its proper position, and a pin slidingly mounted on said tie-engaging member. r

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

' ALFRED AUDET. 

